If you’re like us - summertime means wet towels and swimsuits EVERYWHERE. It drives me crazy! When our kids were younger, we had a metal fence that wrapped around our pool and that became the de facto towel rack. But eventually rust got the better of it and it had to come down. Then our […]

  I’ve been wanting to try making homemade soap for what feels like forever. I’ve read countless books and researched all sorts of different kinds. But when my kids got some simple melt-and-pour glycerin soap as a gift at a birthday party I knew I had found the most fun soap ever. (As it turns […]

Homemade eye makeup remover pads are easy and awesome. I’ve found lots of different recipes for homemade removers online. Most are oily or too strong for my very sensitive skin. Then I found this brilliant version. And while I LOVED how it worked it was inconvenient to apply to a cotton ball and have to […]

Way Better Than the Junk in the Can! I’ve been wanting to try making homemade shaving cream for some time now. In college I experimented with those cans of foam for women. But they never went very far, were expensive, and had all kinds of crazy ingredients I couldn’t pronounce. I usually just defaulted to […]

Want to know how to make the world’s cheapest, easiest homemade heating pad? You’ll need a washcloth and some rice, some way to sew, and a microwave to heat it up in. It should cost under $2 for materials and less than 5 minutes of your time to make one. I know it sounds a […]

  Wool dryer balls - they make me super excited!! Yes, I know that’s totally geeky. What exactly are they? They are balls of wool yarn felted together that you throw into your dryer with your wet clothes. You can sprinkle some essential oils on them to help your clothes smell nice and they release […]